Facebook Emotion Experiment Causes Outrage

Posted by Xen under Online Marketing
From http://xen.com.au 3801 days ago
Made Hot by: maestro68 on July 8, 2014 11:51 am

It’s emerged that social network Facebook conducted an experiment with the help of two US universities into its users’ emotions and the effect of posts on them. The study ran for a week and the site deliberately skewed the appearance of users’ newsfeeds to look at the effect of positive and negative posts. Anger ensued, people were upset about manipulated and were encouraged to close their account.

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Written by ebele
3791 days ago

This is one thing Facebook did that we actually KNOW about. Makes me wonder what we don't know.

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Written by lyceum
3794 days ago

Why should you be upset with this experiment? It is a free service. Have you read the fine print? Didn't you see the paragraph of guinea pig testing the Facebook users? ;)

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